The Trial of Ratko Mladić (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

Victims call him the Butcher of Bosnia. Defenders say he protected the Serbs. FRONTLINE chronicles the trial of Ratko Mladić and tells an epic story of justice, accountability and a country at odds over its bloody past. (Aired 2019)

In the aftermath of the brutal wars that decimated Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić was accused of genocide and other war crimes — including the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica in July 1995.

In “The Trial of Ratko Mladić,” FRONTLINE producers gained exclusive access to the prosecution and defense teams during Mladić’s trial before the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

The documentary also features interviews with Mladić’s supporters and family members in Bosnia and offers harrowing accounts from some of his victims.

“The Trial of Ratko Mladić” provides haunting insights into a convicted war criminal’s motives, and the genocide he commanded his troops to carry out — as well as an intimate look at the victims left behind, who remain haunted by what their families endured.